Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.
Acting
Sherilyn Fenn smolders; David Johansen unhinges gloriously
Production
Nauseatingly authentic 1955 motel hellscape
Writing
Twisty dialogue that thinks it's smarter than you
Director
Alien Castle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Alien Castle never directed again; this was their beautiful one-and-only sleaze-noir baby.
The Disneyland opening juxtaposition—wholesome American optimism vs. motel adultery—was deliberate 1990s indie irony before it became cliché.
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